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We have observed 15 red giant stars in the relatively massive, metal-poor globular cluster NGC 4833 using the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle spectrograph at Magellan. We calculate stellar parameters for each star and perform a standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ian U. Roederer , Ian B. Thompson

Aims. We have determined Sr abundance in a sample of 31 red giant branch stars located in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc with the aim to identify potential differences in the Sr abundance between first population (1P, Na-poor) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 E. Kolomiecas , A. Kučinskas , J. Klevas , V. Dobrovolskas

We present the results of the analysis of high-resolution spectra obtained with UVES-FLAMES@VLT for six red giant branch stars in the outer-halo metal-poor ([Fe/H]I=-1.98 and [Fe/H]II=-1.83) Galactic globular cluster NGC 5694, which has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Mucciarelli , M. Bellazzini , M. Catelan , E. Dalessandro , P. Amigo , M. Correnti , C. Cortés , V. D'Orazi

We present chemical abundances of Al and several Fe-Peak and neutron-capture elements for 13 red giant branch stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6171 (M107). The abundances were determined using equivalent width and spectrum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Julia E. O'Connell , Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Geoffrey Burks

The origin of the star-to-star abundance variations found for the light elements in Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) is not well understood, which is a significant problem for stellar astrophysics. While the light element abundance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 C. Salgado , G. S. Da Costa , J. E. Norris , D. Yong

We determined zirconium abundance in the atmospheres of 327 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the globular cluster 47 Tuc. The 1D LTE abundances were obtained from the archival VLT GIRAFFE spectra, using 1D hydrostatic ATLAS9 stellar model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Edgaras Kolomiecas , Vidas Dobrovolskas , Arūnas Kučinskas

We report chemical abundances of Na, Al, Zr, La, Nd, and Eu for 39 red giant branch (RGB) stars and 23 potential inner disk red clump stars located in Plaut-s low extinction window. We also measure lithium for a super Li-rich RGB star. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Christian I. Johnson , R. Michael Rich , Chiaki Kobayashi , Jon P. Fulbright

We have carried out a detailed abundance analysis for 21 elements in a sample of 25 stars with a wide range in luminosity from luminous giants to stars near the main sequence turnoff in the globular cluster M13 and in a sample of 13 stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Judith G. Cohen , Jorge Melendez

Studies during the last decade have revealed that nearly all Globular Clusters (GCs) host multiple populations (MPs) of stars with a distinctive chemical patterns in light elements. No evidence of such MPs has been found so far in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 I. Cabrera-Ziri , C. Lardo , B. Davies , N. Bastian , G. Beccari , S. S. Larsen , S. Hernandez

We present abundance ratios for 23 elements with respect to Fe in a sample of stars with a wide range in luminosity, from luminous giants to stars near the turnoff, in the globular cluster M71. The analyzed spectra, obtained with HIRES at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Solange V. Ramirez , Judith G. Cohen

We present chemical abundance analysis of a sample of 15 red giant branch (RGB) stars of the Globular Cluster NGC~1851 distributed along the two RGBs of the (v, v-y) CMD. We determined abundances for C+N+O, Na, $\alpha$, iron-peak, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Sandro Villanova , Douglas Geisler , Giampaolo Piotto

This research forms part of an investigation into heavy element abundances in Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in various stellar environments. Seven giant stars in the southern globular cluster 47 Tuc have been observed using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. C. Wylie , P. L. Cottrell , C. A. Sneden , J. C. Lattanzio

Abundance variations in moderately metal-rich globular clusters can give clues about the formation and chemical enrichment of globular clusters. CN, CH, Na, Mg and Al indices in spectra of 89 stars of the template metal-rich globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Alves-Brito , R. P. Schiavon , B. Castilho , B. Barbuy

Multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) are distinct by their different abundances of light elements. The abundance anti-correlations point towards a nucleosynthesis origin due to high-temperature H burning, but it remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 Eugenio Carretta , Angela Bragaglia

Although numerous photometric and spectroscopic studies of stars in Galactic globular clusters suggest the existence of several stellar generations in the majority of clusters studied so far, kinematical properties of these stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-11 A. Kucinskas , V. Dobrovolskas , P. Bonifacio

AIMS. We present abundance analysis based on high resolution spectra of 105 isolated red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 6121 (M4). Our aim is to study its star population in the context of the multi-population…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. F. Marino , S. Villanova , G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , Y. Momany , L. R. Bedin , A. M. Medling

We numerically investigate abundance properties of the Galactic globular clusters (GCs) by adopting a new ``external pollution'' scenario. In this framework, GCs are assumed to originate in forming low-mass dwarfs embedded in dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Bekki , S. W. Campbell , J. C. Lattanzio , J. E. Norris

We present abundances of several light, alpha, Fe-peak, and neutron-capture elements for 66 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri. Our observations lie in the range 12.0<V<13.5 and focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , R. Michael Rich , Jon P. Fulbright

We investigate the light-element behavior of red giant stars in Northern globular clusters (GCs) observed by the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). We derive abundances of nine elements (Fe, C, N, O,…

We present chemical abundances for 17 elements in a sample of 11 red giant branch stars in NGC 6362 from UVES spectra. NGC 6362 is one of the least massive globulars where multiple populations have been detected, yet its detailed chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 D. Massari , A. Mucciarelli , E. Dalessandro , M. Bellazzini , S. Cassisi , G. Fiorentino , R. A. Ibata , C. Lardo , M. Salaris